On windows it’s somewhat possible to avoid most of it by linking to ntdll, which only provides symbols for raw syscall wrappers. But a lot of it is unstable and

On windows it’s somewhat possible to avoid most of it by linking to ntdll, which only provides symbols for raw syscall wrappers. But a lot of it is unstable and may change from a windows release to the next. Doing raw syscalls without ntdll is also possible, but windows syscall numbers change on essentially every release, so you’d end up with something that only works on your windows version.